Environmental Consultancy
Most of New York’s water comes from the Catskill/Delaware watershed (more than a million acres of land) 40% of which is owned by the state, the city or non-profit organisations. A lot of effort is directed at ensuring the source
Cath recently spent an interesting couple of days in Rotterdam on a study trip looking at how the city (80% of which is below sea level) deals with its stormwater run-off. Given that Rotterdam is also home to some seriously
Last September I visited Japan for a holiday and had some interesting encounters with their toilets. The Tour operator had given me very clear instructions on how to use the Eastern style toilets, which was useful and made me realise
We really like www.watersaving.com. It shows fresh water withdrawal per person per day for every country in the world, divided across the three sectors of agriculture, industry and domestic. The site also has more detailed information for some countries about water
Check out what city planners think Boston may look like in the future if, rather than building ever higher sea walls, they actually allow water into the city in a series of canals just as Venice does.
Bora Ristic looks at the water footprint of data centres, links Radiohead with growing tomatoes, highlights what Google and Apple are doing to lower their water footprint and ask whether in the future we will choose internet service providers based on their environmental performance.
Sally Hall gives the low down on the UK’s most water efficient elephant!
Sunita Narain is an environmental activist who heads up the Centre for Science and the Environment based in New Delhi and writes a brilliant blog every two weeks about different environmental issues in India. Occasionally she blogs about water. ‘Take
My flatmate Jonathan has just returned from travels around California including into Yosemite National Park. I had previously travelled in the USA in the summer of 2011 with his ‘big sis’ Simone so we were comparing experiences. I was shocked
The water industry has tried to manage consumption through technological ‘fixes’. But only by understanding how and why water is used by actual people can demand be reduced, argues Dr Alison Browne.